Tasty Ground Beef And Celery Food

GROUND BEEF STIR FRY WITH CELERY

Steps:

• Heat oil in a large nonstick skillet over medium-high heat until hot. Add the onion, carrot, and celery. Cook and stir until tender and lightly golden on the edges, 5 minutes or so.
• Move all the ingredients to one side of the pan and add the ground meat to the other side. Chop the meat into smaller chunks using your spatula. When the surface of the beef has mostly turned white, mix everything.
• Add the fermented black beans, garlic, and minced ginger. Mix everything again.
• Pour in the Shaoxing wine and light soy sauce. Cook and stir until the meat is cooked through. Carefully taste the meat and vegetables. Sprinkle with salt and stir to mix, if needed.
• Transfer everything to a large plate. Serve hot as a main with steamed rice or boiled noodles.

CLASSIC MEATLOAF

Steps:

• Preheat the oven to 325 degrees F.
• Place the carrot, celery, onion, red bell pepper, mushrooms, and garlic in a food processor, and pulse until very finely chopped, almost to a puree. Place the minced vegetables into a large mixing bowl, and mix in ground chuck, Worcestershire sauce, and egg. Add Italian herbs, salt, black pepper, and cayenne pepper. Mix gently with a wooden spoon to incorporate vegetables and egg into the meat. Pour in bread crumbs. With your hand, gently mix in the crumbs with your fingertips just until combined, about 1 minute.
• Form the meatloaf into a ball. Pour olive oil into a baking dish and place the ball of meat into the dish. Shape the ball into a loaf, about 4 inches high by 6 inches across.
• Bake in the preheated oven just until the meatloaf is hot, about 15 minutes.
• Meanwhile, in a small bowl, mix together brown sugar, ketchup, Dijon mustard, and hot sauce. Stir until the brown sugar has dissolved.
• Remove the meatloaf from the oven. With the back of a spoon, smooth the glaze onto the top of the meatloaf, then pull a little bit of glaze down the sides of the meatloaf with the back of the spoon.
• Return meatloaf to oven, and bake until the loaf is no longer pink inside and the glaze has baked onto the loaf, 30 to 40 more minutes. An instant-read thermometer inserted into the thickest part of the loaf should read at least 160 degrees F (70 degrees C). Cooking time will depend on shape and thickness of the meatloaf.

SKILLET BEEF AND CELERY

Steps:

• In a large skillet, heat 2 tablespoons of oil over medium heat. Slowly cook and stir onions and celery until golden brown; remove from heat and set aside.
• In the same skillet, heat the remaining 2 tablespoons of oil. Place beef slices in the skillet and heat until well browned. Stir in salt, pepper, soy sauce and water.
• Cover and simmer for 30 to 40 minutes. Return the onion and celery mixture to the skillet and simmer for another 10 minutes.
• In a small bowl, combine the water and cornstarch. Pour the mixture into skillet. Stirring constantly, heat until thickened.

STIR-FRIED BEEF WITH CELERY

Steps:

• Trim fat from beef; cut beef with grain into 2-inch strips.
• Cut strips across grain into 1/8-inch slices.
• Toss beef, 1 tablespoon vegetable oil, 1 teaspoon cornstarch, 1 teaspoon salt, the sugar, 1 teaspoon soy sauce and the white pepper in glass or plastic bowl.
• Cover and refrigerate 30 minutes.
• Cut celery diagonally into 1/4-inch slices.
• Cut green onions into 2-inch pieces.
• Mix 1 tablespoon cornstarch and the water.
• Heat wok until 1 or 2 drops of water bubble and skitter when sprinkled in wok.
• Add 3 tablespoons vegetable oil; rotate wok to coat side.
• Add beef, gingerroot and garlic; stir-fry until beef is brown, about 3 minutes.
• Remove beef from wok.
• Add 3 tablespoons vegetable oil to wok; rotate.
• Add celery; stir-fry 1 minute.
• Stir in chicken broth and 1/2 teaspoon salt; heat to boiling.
• Cover and cook 2 minutes.
• Stir in cornstarch mixture; cook and stir until thickened, about 10 seconds.
• Stir in beef and 2 tablespoons soy sauce; heat to boiling.
• Garnish with green onions.

DELICIOUS GROUND BEEF MEDLEY

Steps:

• In a skillet, brown ground beef with onion and celery. Stir to break up meat. Drain.
• Cook macaroni as directed on package. Drain.
• In a 2 1/2-qt. casserole dish, combine the soups, milk, salt and pepper. Stir in the ground beef, macaroni, green pepper and corn.
• Bake at 350 degrees F for 30 minutes.